Culture

Some half-ruined buildings are too unusual, beautiful, or historically significant to be demolished, yet their state of decay is so severe that restoration is impossible. As a result, they stand for decades, crumbling, becoming part of the landscape, and attracting…

The United Kingdom—a land of green fields and historic mansions—holds many curious secrets within its walls. Every basement can be a hidden chamber, every garden an archive of human history. Sometimes, routine home renovations or a quiet Sunday spent gardening…

“Bigger, louder, bolder, stranger” — if Leigh Bowery had left us a will, it might have sounded something like this. Tate Modern’s new exhibition, Leigh Bowery! — yes, with an exclamation mark, because anything else wouldn’t do — reveals the…

Built in the 1930s in the Art Deco style, the Troxy concert hall welcomes visitors with bohemian chic and the scent of beer. Tonight’s event: a concert by Enigma, the German project founded in 1990 by producer Michael Cretu, which…

After the past few years of global upheavals, by 2025, we felt like nothing could surprise us anymore—not even alien invasions, meteor strikes, or ancient monsters rising from the depths of the Earth. But something even more unexpected happened: the…

“If a song don’t come out in an hour, then it don’t wanna be in the world.” It was with this motto that Yungblud (Dominic Richard Harrison) rocketed to the top of the UK album charts. His singles Low Life,…

On February 14, Adam Elliot’s Memoir of Snail will be released in UK cinemas. The film is currently part of the Oscar race, and last summer it won the Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animation Festival (that can be called…